Newtons third law of terrorism ?

First of all yes I realize the comparison is somewhat in jest. But we are all familiar with newtons third law of motion .

" Third law: When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction
on the first body".

Taken literally this law could not apply . But looking at it figuratively I can draw a comparison .

Some supporters of radical Islam have made it a point to bring violence into the workplace to prove their faith . My first example is today's
attack in France .

The assailant rammed his delivery van into a warehouse containing gas canisters, triggering an initial explosion, and was arrested minutes later
as he tried to open canisters containing flammable chemicals, prosecutors said on Friday. Police found the head of the victim, the 54-year-old
manager of the transport firm that employed the suspect, dangling from a fence. "The head was discovered hanging on the factory's wire fence, framed
by two flags that included references to the shahada, or (Muslim) profession of faith," Paris public prosecutor Francois Molins told a news
conference.

On November 5, 2009, a mass murder took place at Fort Hood, near Killeen, Texas.[1] Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army major and psychiatrist, fatally
shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others.[2][3] The shooting produced more casualties than any other on an American military base.[4][5] Several
individuals, including Senator Joe Lieberman,[6] General Barry McCaffrey,[7] and others have called the event a terrorist attack.[8][9] The United
States Department of Defense and federal law enforcement agencies have classified the shootings as an act of workplace violence.[10]

Those are the first three I know of off the top of my head. I'm interested to see if there are connections in other attacks around the world?

Now newtons third law requires for every action a equal and opposite reaction .

Would a equal and opposite reaction of discriminating in employment against the followers of Islam because of a limited number of zelots. Be seen
as protecting people in the workplace or discriminating against people in the workplace ? The threat is there, in a subgroup of one of the largest
branches of religion in the world. ( where do we set the standard ?)

The same reasoning could be applied on eligibility to enter places of education where our children gather.

In March 2006, Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, an Iranian-American, intentionally, as he confessed, hit people with a sport utility vehicle on the
campus of the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill to "avenge the deaths of Muslims worldwide" and to "punish" the United States
government. While no one was killed in the terror ramming attack, nine people were injured (none seriously).

SEATTLE, July 29 — A day after a gunman killed one woman and wounded five others in the offices of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, the
police identified a Muslim man on Saturday as the suspect and said he used the Internet to select the federation as a random target for his anger
toward Jews.

One of the oddist things I find about many of these incidents . Is that despite claims to the contrary by the perpetrators. The government agencies
refuse to call many of them terrorist attacks. Instead they use the term's workplace violence and hate crime.

I myself do not think we have reached this point yet . But if the trend continues my position might be swayed . If acts of violence are perpetrated
by individuals in the name of a religion. I do not think people should be surprised when people of that religion are singled out for extar scrutiny
.

Please don't flame me. My position on this subject is not settled I am merrily bringing it up for discussion.

Of course. However, discrimination would play into the hands of ISIS. It would create this "us vs them" image and you know what happens after that.
More will join them thinking that ISIS wants them. By the time they blow themselves up,it would be too late for them to realize that ISIS was just
using them for their own needs.

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